moved from piefed.social/u/rozodru due to qutebrowser issues.

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Cake day: February 6th, 2026

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  • a new hobby of mine is finding old PCs and getting some linux distro running on them. I started doing this after getting into some youtube content where people refurbish 90s PCs to either get Linux or community rebuilds of old Windows OS’ going on them and seeing what modern or close to modern software they can run. THEN you get into a rabbit hole of finding VERY interesting projects of people still maintaining like ancient versions of firefox for example.

    There’s a sort of cozy comfort to it. getting a mid to late 90s PC going again, booting it up, and hearing the Windows 95 startup sound just instantly sends me back to my childhood. And the thing is this tech surprisingly holds up after some 30 to 40 years much better than modern tech.

    A fun new project I’m working on is hooking an old floppy drive up to a modern PC and using it to start games on steam. I saw a short video of that recently where a guy had all these floppy disks labeled with like Counter Strike 2 or Marvel Rivals which he would pop into a floppy drive hooked up to his PC and when the floppy was inserted it simply started the game. It’s nothing complicated at all. It’s just putting a very simple like bash script onto a floppy disk to simply tell it to start a specific game via steam when the disk is mounted. Why am I doing this? man I miss putting physical media into a PC to start a game. having one of those old floppy disk containers and flipping through them all to find a game to play.




  • the thing is with Dougie he hasn’t really done anything especially when it comes to paying off his mob debts that I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t been whacked yet. Look at the Science Centre in Toronto. He ordered the thing closed down immediately cause the roof was going to cave in at any moment. Well we’ve had SEVERAL major snow storms since then and guess what’s still standing? Why did he want the place closed? cause a mob family with ties to development were building directly across the street and wanted the land. They still don’t have it. Look how well that greenbelt fiasco worked out for him, it didn’t, the families still didn’t get it. The highway project, nadda. The spa at Ontario Place, probably not gonna happen. Bike lanes in Toronto, again happened for all of like 2 weeks. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Billy Bishop Airport stuff also has ties to mob family developments to expand the airport and I can assure you, it also won’t happen.

    The fact this guy hasn’t had his knees broken or thumbs taken yet is quite impressive.







  • no?

    Yes the state of email clients has be dire for years. there simply aren’t many great ones. I mean I use DOOM Emacs as my email client because all the other ones were just lacking. Yes there is Betterbird which is slightly better than thunderbird. IF there was a client that would automatically throw spam in a spam folder similar to gmail as opposed to just simply marking it as spam I would use that. Unless someone has better options I’ve yet to discover on linux I’m just going to keep using Emacs. But I mean the fact that thunderbird is the best option is an overall sad state for email clients in general.



  • Sure. I use NVChad for web development/simple HTML since it’s preconfigured perfectly for that stuff right out of the box. for example hex color codes it shows a visual representation of the colour which is awesome when using tailwind or just regular css. It’s simple to set up right away so I can easily install it quickly on any machine and be good to go.

    DOOM Emacs I use for larger projects/builds, compiling stuff, working with configurations (I primarily use NixOS) as I find it works better with that stuff. having a built in terminal is also very nice as well as a built in email client and the built in file manager makes managing projects much easier combined with the added built in git. Also with DOOM Emacs if I create a new file for something it will have stuff preconfigured, kinda like a bootstrap, for various things.



  • IDE:

    DOOM Emacs. It’s my IDE, my email client, sometimes my terminal, my calendar, my regular word editor, it’s just everything I need.

    NVChad. It’s Neovim but with all the smart plugins as default. I prefer it over lazyvim as it just has everything I need good to go.

    CLI/TUIs:

    If you like watching anime than Ani-CLI is the best thing out there. has everything and you can watch whatever you want in the terminal.

    Bat. It’s like Cat but better.

    lazygit. really great git interface that makes things easy.

    cmus. easiliy the best TUI music player

    yazi. my go to file manager. has everything I need, easy to theme and customize.

    osxiv. straight forward image viewer

    Browser:

    Qutebrowser. I like using vim navigation for everything so Qutebrowser is my browser of choice. very easy to customize and configure with custom scripts. works fantastic with various password managers.





  • it’s a weird distro for sure. it’s kinda all over the place with stuff. for example on the distro itself they recommend installing Cosmic-Store as your package manager even if you’re not using Cosmic. they also use Nemo and a few other GNOME things baked in if your running the Niri or Hyprland iso. it’s odd. Add to the fact like i said if you want to remove Kitty you cana potentially break your system especially if you have an Nvidia GPU as it’s also baked into it for some reason.

    This as opposed to Nobara where you can literally use the officiall or KDE iso version and then completely remove Plasma in favor of a WM and you’re fine.